Chapter X.—Exhortation to the
practice of virtue.391391 This
and the two following chapters are preserved only in a Latin version.
[See Jacobson, ad loc.]

Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and
follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith,
loving the brotherhood,392392
Comp. 1 Pet. ii. 17. and being attached
to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness of
the Lord in your intercourse with one another, and despising no one. When
you can do good, defer it not, because “alms delivers from
death.”393393Tobit iv. 10, Tobit xii. 9. Be all of you subject one to another394394 Comp. 1 Pet. v.
5. “having your conduct blameless among the
Gentiles,”3953951 Pet. ii. 12. that ye may both receive
praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through
you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed!396396Isa. lii.
5. Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest
it also in your own conduct.

391 This
and the two following chapters are preserved only in a Latin version.
[See Jacobson, ad loc.]